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From: haseltine@onramp.net (Doug Haseltine)
Subject: Re: LZW
Date: 1998/02/19
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>What on earth is the point of translating the C to Ada in a case like this?
>Why not simply interface to the C code.
>
>Sounds like a lot of work that (a) achieves nothing and (b) substantially
>increases the risks.

Both very good points.  I believe those were amongst the
myriad of reasons for dropping the Ada mandate.  We,
however, had no contractual choice in the matter at the
time.